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Roads Less Traveled: Out of the Way Places We Love, Part 2

By Jamie Larson Last week we explored some of our favorite out-of-the-way main streets on the New England side of the RI region. This week we’re over in New York, giving due credit to some less-talked-about town centers in Columbia and Dutchess counties. One

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Speaker Series Brings Economic Issues Home

By Hannah Van Sickle Barrett It seems entirely fitting that whether by happy accident or some kind of market prescience, the American Institute for Economic Research relocated from Cambridge, Mass. to Great Barrington in the 1940s. The independent nonprofit organization was established in 1933 to help ordinary Americans deepen their

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The Rural We: Kira Wizner

Kira Wizner, a part-time resident of the Hudson Valley, became the new owner of Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, New York last November. When she and her family, who live in NYC, were looking for a weekend place, the requirement was that it be “quiet and lovely," and they

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Roads Less Traveled: Out of the Way Places We Love, Part 1

The West Cornwall Covered Bridge By Jamie Larson Over the years, we’ve crisscrossed the Rural Intelligence region highlighting the best our towns, villages and cities have to offer. But we have to admit that sometimes we wonder if we're missing out on some hidden treasures as we&

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Sit Awhile: The Porch Brings Storytelling To The Spiegeltent

By Robert Burke Warren A single spotlight, a bare stage, a microphone, and a true story. With that simple formula, Red Hook resident Joey Shavelle has created The Porch, a standing-room-only storytelling series coming to Bard’s Spiegeltent in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, on Friday, June 24

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At The Mount, La Conversation Est En Français

Les Francophones in 2012. Photo courtesy Jan Werner. Francophiles take note: beginning June 23, on Thursday mornings through Sept. 1, only French will be spoken at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s estate in Lenox, Mass. And could there be a more glorious setting than the Terrace Café for Le Café

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The Rural We: Karen T. Hunt

Architect Karen T. Hunt, comes from a family of multigenerational Pittsfield-based builders, but she hewed her own path studying architectural history and design at Notre Dame. After years living in cities across country with her own family, the Berkshire County native returned home, where her specialty made her the

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The Rural We: Murray Hochman

Photo © Cheryl Koralik Murray Hochman is an artist who lives in Tyringham, Mass. Now in his early 80s, he has painted every day for the last 50 years. His body of work is immense and impressive, and his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in New York and elsewhere

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A Tradition Continues: Morris Dancing In The Northwest Corner

The Bouwerie Boys By Amy Krzanik Morris dancing, a traditional English folk dance dating back to at least 1448, has made its own history of sorts right here in our part of New England. Morris troupes, or teams as they are called, have performed in the northwest Connecticut and southwest

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The Rural We: Carrie Haddad

Photo: Linden Scheff On Saturday, May 28, the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY is celebrating its quarter century in business with a 25th anniversary exhibition opening and artists’ reception. Although the gallery owner had originally planned to be a famous dancer (she won a scholarship with Alvin Ailey), studied

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The Rural We: Lisa Dolan

Book Festival co-directors Lisa Dolan and the "amazing" Jennifer Clark. The founder of the Hudson Reads mentoring project and co-founder of the Hudson Children’s Book Festival may be retiring from the city’s school district in June, but she will leave a lasting impression on

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Hudson Sloop Club Embodies The Past But Looks To The Future

A digital rendering of the future Everett Nack Estuary Education Center proposed by the Hudson Sloop Club. By Jamie Larson Hudson, New York has a long and complicated relationship with its namesake river. Centuries of industry and pollution led to a city built with its back to the Hudson. It

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